IP: Judge Explains Rules of Etiquette for the Breaku

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

Judge Explains Rules of Etiquette for the Breakup

By DAVID STOUT

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- The centerpiece of the government's cure for the 
predatory, monopolistic, take-no-prisoners behavior that Microsoft was 
found to have embraced is to chop the company in two.
One new company would make the Windows operating system, the other would 
make the applications that are run by the operating system, as well as 
Microsoft's Internet and computer hardware businesses. The government 
called the companies "Ops Co." and "Apps Co." in court papers.

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/06/biztech/articles/08remedy.html